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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 3098907" data-attributes="member: 232">APG City Tiles    Props at the gaming table are a nice way to enhance play and with the prevalence of minis being used in the game these types of tile props can be very useful.  Here we have printable tiles that are in black and white as well as color.  One of the nice things on them being printable is one can write on them and print as much as they like.  Of course printing especially in color can be expensive as these tiles are going to consume quite a bit of ink.    City Tiles is done by Alea Publishing Group.  They have slowly been producing a nice range of PDF products for the d20 game.  The book is in black and white and color so it can be printed either way.  It is not that big only being nineteen pages long.  Fifteen of those pages have a single full page tile on them and two of the pages have a pair of half page tiles on them..  The book has no book marks which are expected as the product is designed to be printed out and not used on a computer screen.  The book does include some advice for printing it out.  It suggests printing it out on card stock and even getting them laminated.  That will make the tiles a lot more durable but also drives up the out of pocket cost to use these.      The tiles look good and are easy to use with a square grid on the maps.  The book gives one stone roads on grass with straight roads, cross roads, and a tee intersection.  There is a full page grid on plain grass and the rest of them are of buildings.  The maps given are of inns, freeman’s homes, merchant homes, taverns, wealthy homes, and other basic places.  The maps look good.  It is easy to tell what the different items on the maps are and they are not cluttered with items.      While everything in it is good it does need more.  The title is City Tiles and there is not a city in this product.  The buildings are surrounded with grass and there is plenty of room in the buildings.  There is no sense of the conservation of space and the claustrophobic nature of many old cities.  Also, the buildings they give are just a small selection of what one would hope to find in a city.  There needs to be stables, blacksmith shop, armory, general stores, temples, public baths, and other city exclusive buildings that one doe not find in most villages.  This product though does work for someone wanting the buildings for a village and other smaller communities.      In the end the maps are well done and about what one finds in other similar products.  I would not get this if I specifically wanted city tiles.  However, for a few more buildings to add on to a collection of tiles or to just have a few buildings for a village or town this will work as well as any other tile product on the subject.</blockquote>

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